The Supreme Court on Friday vacated the interim protection granted to former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar from arrest by the CBI in the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam case.


Saradha scam: SC lifts interim stay on Kolkata ex-top cop's arrest (2nd Lead)


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South Korea on Friday announced it would donate $8 million in humanitarian aid to North Korea through international agencies, at a time when its neighbour faces a possible food shortage and drought.


S.Korea to give $8 million in aid to N.Korea


In 'dry' Bihar and Gujarat, liquor has found a new route as road routes are being guarded by paramilitary and the local police to enforce the model code of conduct to check smuggling of liquor and cash.


This poll season, liquor smugglers pick rail routes in Bihar, Gujarat


A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Delhi High Court on Friday seeking direction to the State Election Commission to remove election symbols from the ballots in the electronic voting machines (EVM) for the municipal polls.


HC to hear plea to remove symbols from MCD poll EVMs


The Rajasthan High Court on Friday, terming the administration and police a "failure", issued notice to the Ashok Gehlot government on the rising incidents of rape in the state.


Rajasthan HC notice to Gehlot government over rising rape cases


The Supreme Court on Friday refused to grant any relief to SP-BSP candidate in Uttar Pradesh, Atul Rai, who is on the run in an alleged rape case from the Ghosi Lok Sabha constituency.


SC refuses relief to rape accused BSP's Atul Rai


The cross-party discussions over Brexit on Friday ended without any agreement six weeks after they started.


UK cross-party Brexit talks end without deal


Election officials in West Bengal are gearing up for an altogether different kind of battle with boats, HAM radios and power generating equipment as the world's largest mangrove, the Sundarbans, votes on Sunday.


EC takes special measures as Sunderbans goes to polls


Curfew continued for the second day on Friday in tension-ridden Bhaderwah town of Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district, even as police denied cow vigilantes were behind the murder of a local resident.


Curfew on in Bhaderwah, police deny cow vigilantes behind murder


US Ambassador to India Kenneth Ian Juster met Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga and discussed possible areas of cooperation in road infrastructure and health care among others, an official release said here on Friday.


US envoy meets Mizoram CM discuss health, infra


The Delhi High Court on Friday deferred the hearing on a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions to the Election Commission to review political parties having names with religious connotations or using symbols similar to that of the national flag.


HC defers hearing on parties names with religious connotations


Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi fired a fresh salvo at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and called him the worlds "greatest actor".


Modi better actor than Amitabh, says Priyanka


The Enforcement Directorate on Friday said it had attached a Rs 1.94 crore property of former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala in the national capital in a disproportionate assets case.


ED attaches Rs 1.94 cr Delhi property of O.P. Chautala


Bangladesh authorities made a series of new arrests in their crackdown on the right to free speech, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. The arrests were based on vague charges such as "hurting religious sentiment" or undermining "law and order".


Poet, lawyer jailed in fresh crackdown in Bangladesh: HRW


A car in Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat's convoy overturned while trying to avoid a cow on a road here, official sources said on Friday.


Car in RSS chief's convoy overturns


US President Donald Trump wants his proposed wall along the Mexican border should be painted black and made of steel with spikes which will make it difficult for immigrants to climb, a media report said.


Trump wants border wall painted black with spikes


Even as his anticipatory bail petition is pending before the Madras High Court for his 'Hindu terrorist' speech, actor-politician Kamal Haasan on Friday said it is advisable not to arrest him.


It is advisable not to arrest me, says Kamal


After Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih was in India to watch the Indian Premier League game between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings, it has now been learnt that it wasnt a one-off programme. The Committee of Administrators (CoA) monitoring the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is now set to send GM Cricket Operations Saba Karim to Male to study the position of the gentlemans game in the country and the development program it requires.


Karim to develop Maldives cricket, BCCI officials stunned


A separatist-called protest shutdown on Friday over civilian deaths during an anti-terror operation found support in the valley as shops, public transport, businesses and educational institutions remained closed here in the city and other places in Jammu and Kashmir.


Separatist call shutdown over civilian killing in J&K


US President Donald Trump has proposed a sweeping change to the immigration system to make it "merit-based" favouring professionals and well-educated people who will be high earners.


Trump proposes 'merit-based' immigration system


In response to US President Donald Trump announced his "merit based" immigration proposal, Democrat Senator Kamala Harris invoked her unique background as a presidential candidate -- being the daughter of an Indian immigrant.

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